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Absolutely smashing their goals, the KDE team have managed to have a huge success for the 2025 fundraiser that's currently ongoing.
Category: Open Source
Proton Experimental brings fixes for ARC Raiders, The Finals and various other games
Valve just launched their latest upgrade for Proton Experimental to get as many Windows games as possible running on Linux / SteamOS.
Framework greatly expand their open source event and Linux distribution sponsorships
Framework Computer BV have announced a nice big expansion of their sponsorship program with many open source events and Linux distributions benefiting from it.
GE-Proton 10-26 released with FEX included, improvements for DLSS and game fixes
The Windows compatibility layer GE-Proton 10-26 has released with a bunch of technical improvements, along with various game fixes too.
Windows compatibility layer Wine 11 gets a first Release Candidate
We're on the road to the release of Wine 11 early next year with the first Release Candidate now available for the Windows compatibility layer.
Mesa 25.2.8 and Mesa 25.3.1 released for open source Linux graphics drivers
After being delayed, both Mesa 25.2.8 and Mesa 25.3.1 have been released with an assortment of bug fixes for open source Linux graphics drivers.
The response to s&box from Facepunch going open source has been "overwhelmingly positive"
Open source rocks so it's pleasing to see it go well for Facepunch with s&box. They've now added native Linux binaries for the dedicated server and game client.
Valve have been funding FEX to get x86 games on Arm Linux
It turns out that not only are Valve using the open source FEX for the Steam Frame but they have been funding FEX since the beginning of it.
Fedora Linux 44 will get improved NTSYNC enabling for Proton / Wine
NTSYNC has been available in the Linux kernel for a while, but it's taking distributions a while to actually use it - Fedora Linux 44 will make it easier.
Arch-based distro EndeavourOS gets a new Ganymede release
Easily one of the best ways to try out a form of Arch Linux, the popular EndeavourOS has a new release with Ganymede out now.
UZDoom the successor to GZDoom has a first proper release out now
What will now be the main modern feature centric port for all Doom engine games, UZDoom has a first proper release out to take over from GZDoom.
Wine 10.20 released with upgraded vkd3d
The Windows compatibility layer Wine version 10.20 was released over the weekend, here's all the highlights from it.
MangoHud performance overlay for Linux v0.8.2 released
The excellent and incredibly useful Linux performance overlay MangoHud has released version 0.8.2 after being in testing for a few weeks with new features.
Valve release small Proton Experimental update for ARC Raiders, Uno and Far Cry 4
Following on from a bigger Proton Experimental update for Linux / SteamOS last week, a smaller bug-fix update has rolled out for the Windows compatibility tool.
s&box from Rust developer Facepunch is now open source
s&box from Rust developer Facepunch is a modern game engine built on Valve's Source 2 and the latest .NET, and now it is open source!
KDE Plasma going all-in on Wayland and will drop the X11 session completely
It was only a matter of time but it's nearly upon us - KDE Plasma with version 6.8 will be entirely dropping the X11 session to go full Wayland.
Fedora proposal put forward to improve "production stability and incident management"
After a string of annoying incidents after updates causing stability problems on Fedora, there's a new proposal put forward to help improve things.
TRX an open-source reimplementation of Tomb Raider 1 and Tomb Raider 2 version 1.0 released
With lots of enhancements for the classics Tomb Raider 1 and Tomb Raider 2, the TRX project version 1.0 is out now with an LUA scripting engine for modders.
xorg-server 21.1.21 freshly released to fix some annoying regressions
For those of you still rocking xorg rather than Wayland, there's a new release out that should hopefully fix up some issues you may have been seeing.
Igalia detail their open source work for Valve's Steam Frame and Steam Machine
One of the great things about Valve's hardware is that it's not locked down, and they put a lot of money into open source for SteamOS (Linux).
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